Day 1 of the 70-day plan. Each subject has its own 30-question test — study a topic from the checklist, then attempt it straight away. Or take all 150 questions together (117 minutes). A wrong answer costs 0.25 marks.
General Studies
Polity: making of the Constitution, sources, Preamble
- Cabinet Mission Plan 1946 and the Constituent Assembly
- First sitting 9 Dec 1946; Sachchidananda Sinha, Rajendra Prasad, H. C. Mukherjee
- Objectives Resolution (Nehru, 13 Dec 1946); Drafting Committee under Ambedkar
- Adoption 26 Nov 1949, commencement 26 Jan 1950
- Borrowed features: GoI Act 1935, UK, USA, Ireland, USSR, Canada, Australia
- Preamble: keywords, 42nd Amendment, Berubari and Kesavananda cases
Most Polity questions now come as 'which of the statements is/are correct'.
Quant
Number system and divisibility
- Types of numbers: natural, whole, integers, rational, irrational
- Divisibility rules for 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 11
- Number of factors from prime factorisation
- Unit digit cycles of powers
- Remainder rules
Learn the divisibility rule of 11 — it appears almost every year.
Reasoning
Number series and wrong term
- Difference and second-difference series
- Ratio series (×2, ×3, ×2+1)
- Squares, cubes, n² ± 1, n³ − n²
- Finding the wrong term
Test each option against the rule you find.
English
Parts of speech
- Noun types: common, proper, collective, abstract
- Pronoun vs adjective (this, that, which)
- Adverb vs adjective (fast, hard, late)
- Preposition, conjunction, interjection
- The same word as different parts of speech
Decide by the word's job in the sentence.
Odia
ଶୁଦ୍ଧ ଶବ୍ଦ I (spelling)
- ଇ / ଈ, ଉ / ଊ ଭେଦ
- ଶ / ଷ / ସ ଓ ନ / ଣ
- ଯୁକ୍ତାକ୍ଷର: କ୍ଷ, ର୍ତ୍ତ, ଜ୍ଜ୍ୱ, ଷ୍ଟ
- ତତ୍ସମ ଶବ୍ଦର ବନାନ
- ଅଶୁଦ୍ଧ ବନାନ ଚିହ୍ନାଅ; ବାକ୍ୟରେ ଅଶୁଦ୍ଧ ବନାନ ସଂଶୋଧନ
Ten spelling questions open every Odia section.